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It's time to abolish England (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by jackmarxist@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland should be granted full independence and England should be divided up in several smaller countries all under a peacekeeping force.

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[-] Lester_Peterson@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

no term limits

no constitution, through Parliament the ruling regime can overrule the judiciary at will and ignore human rights treaties

antidemocratic electoral system where a party winning 1/3rd of the vote gets 2/3rds of seats

state media spewing hatred towards refugees and trans people, inciting violent riots

Chairman Xi, my people yearn for freedom

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 months ago

Putting aside that bourgeois democracies are not democracies, term limits are the weirdest thing. If the people want someone to be leader, they should be leader. They get easily cast aside when somebody who really wants the reins of power gets it, so it's not an impediment to that. The only thing it does is stem radical change from taking charge for too long. It's a conservative concept.

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

Okay, term limits for libs

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Only if libs are limited to 0 terms

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Term limits were invented by ancient Greeks and Romans for the purpose of reducing infighting for the offices among the members of ruling class. Note how bourgeois historians are presenting ancient Athens in V century BCE as the classic example of democracy, while even if we ignore how classist that democracy was, it was explicitly a period when one person (Pericles) basically ruled as informal dictator and turned Delian League into actual empire.